Let's have a look at the role of conflict in interpersonal relationships. Whether we like to or not conflict is a normal, inescapable part of life. When two human beings interact together, they see the world they see the situation from different viewpoints and from different perspectives. Through that difference, disagreements will occur. The important thing around conflict is to recognize that the disagreement is there. And what was the disagreement through healthy debate, conflict will occur and will escalate because there are emotions involved.
And it occurs in any relationship from time to time. It's a really good opportunity to understand opposing preferences and values and to understand things from different people's perspectives. without conflict or without disagreement Life would be boring. So debate, discussion, disagreements and conflict helps to promote her growth and learning. We see things from different perspectives. We see things from others viewpoints, we understand that difference.
It helps to promote creativity and innovation. Conflict helps promote our own personal development. It increases our own self awareness around our own preferences and their own values and gives us a greater understanding of what they are and how others see the mentalities use them. Conflict helps to develop our own interpersonal skills, how we debate discuss and put our viewpoints over in succinct and effective ways. Conflict helps in terms of listening. In relationship development conflict helps to develop a mutual understanding Other people, we may not necessarily agree with the other people involved, but we can see it in a different way.
And we can see how important it is to them. And what that difference is. So conflict opens up communication. It opens up communication through discussion through good listening skills, and helps to formulate our own views and ways in which we can express them in appropriate ways. Conflict helps us to develop new ways of seeing things, new perspectives, new viewpoints, and so it helps to broaden our horizons.